TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vakunta,Peter W.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel: a new literary canon 
T2  - Francophone cultures and literatures,
SN  - 9781433112713 (hardcover alk. paper)
AV  - PQ3984 .V35 2011eb
U1  - 843.009/96 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - African fiction (French)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Africa, French-speaking
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-162) and index; Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Cr�epuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des ind�ependances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des ind�ependances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -